James Kirkup is The Telegraph's Executive Editor (Politics). He was previously the Telegraph's Political Editor and has worked at Westminster since 2001.

'While our troops were at war, the defence budget was being cut. That's wrong.'

In the course of researching another piece about David Cameron and defence spending, I just came across a fascinating quote:

"He can't hide from the facts which is, whether you look at the budget, whether you look at the expenditure, whether you do it on a cash basis, whether you do it on a resource accounting basis, the budget was cut.

"The most important thing is the fact that while our troops were at war, the defence budget was being cut. That's wrong."